Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Crowd DJ is a dance controlled interactive sound mixer that gives the crowd control over the musical output. All you need to do is dance. Each area of the dance floor activates a sound channel. But if you stop dancing the music will immediately shut down. More info at tomlaan.nl

Wednesday, November 03, 2010

In September 2010 the 1st and 2nd year students of the I/M/D department of the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague have been asked to develop concepts and create prototypes of interactive media applications (installations, websites, mobile phone apps etc) in some way breaking with the stereotypical perception of African society and culture and shifting our paradigms regarding this part of the world. The selected results of the project were presented at the Business Summit Netherlands-Africa in Wassenaar on November 3, 2010.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

The Atari 2600's cartridge-based videogames are quaint by today's standards, but programmer/artist Ben Fry spins contemporary visualizations out of the raw code and data of classic titles such as Pac Man and Pitfall.

"When a byte of data (as opposed to code) is found in the cartridge, it is shown as an orange row: a solid block for a '1' or a dot for a '0'. The row is eight elements long, representing a whole byte. This usually means that the images can be seen in their entirety when a series of bytes are shown as rows. The images were often stored upside-down as a programming method."

Fry's visualization reveals how the original game code intersected with the Atari 2600's primitive graphics and limited data. Today's games are generally too complex to visualize in this way, although play patterns are easier to track and show (for example, as heat maps).

Friday, October 08, 2010

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Are you busy but still playing your iPhone? Checking facebook, e-mail, chatting with friends even you have something more important to do? Here is an app for you! It turns your iPhone into a simple, old generation cell phone! It's again a mobile not a toy which gets all your time and attention.Simple click.